Replication File for "Beyond affective polarization: How emotion and identity cues are used in anti-vaccination conspiracies on TikTok"
Political Communication. (Forthcoming)

By Sang Jung Kim, Isabel Iruani Villanueva, and Kaiping Chen
July 2023

** Citation **

Kim, S., Villanueva, I.I., & Chen, K. (forthcoming). Beyond affective polarization:
How emotion and identity cues are used in anti-vaccination conspiracies on TikTok. Political Communication.

** Notes **

Please set your working directory to the folder where this ReadMe.txt is located.

** R files **
1) figure_1.R 
(Figure 1. Count and percentages of videos that used fear, anger, and joy/happiness emotions in the video captions, transcripts, and thumbnails.)

2) table_1.R 
(Table 1. Number of videos with identity vocabulary in the caption/transcript)

3) table_2a_2b.R 
(Table 2a. Emotion, identity, and engagement with TikTok videos: Results from negative binomial regressions for different modalities, main effects; 
Table 2b. Emotion, identity, and engagement with TikTok videos: Results from negative binomial regressions for different modalities, interaction effects) 

** Dataset **
transcribing_tiktok_openai_with_final_dataset_0427_anonymized.xlsx


